After seven years of offering close scrutiny to any and all aspects of consumer lending — mortgage underwriting, car loans, short-term lending, credit cards, debt collection,...
Retailers — led by Walmart — seem to have beaten back an attempt to raise swipe fees, according to Congressional aides speaking to Bloomberg. Get...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) rulemaking authority survived its first big challenge from the now Republican-dominated houses of Congress when an effort to use...
Last week was not a good week to be the CFPB or Dodd-Frank financial reforms. The House Financial Services Committee voted 34 to 26 to...
Things are getting tougher for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) under the new political administration. More banks are now willing to challenge CFPB enforcement actions,...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) just recently filed suit against four online lenders for allegedly collecting on consumer debts they were not legally owed....
As Congress moved to hold a hearing on legislation that would repeal the debit card swipe fee reform, retailers from across the U.S., along with...
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street and Consumer Protection Act was supposed to prevent another 2008 banking meltdown — and solve the problem of “too big to...